Caption: CN train 672 from Owen Sound arrives at Palmerston with conventional passenger equipment trailing RS18 3105. While typically equipped with RDCs, conventional equipment would return to the branchlines during the Christmas season, while the Budd cars were added to Niagara-bound trains.

Several UCRS members made the trip to Palmerston on Boxing Day, 1962, to ride the wayfreight to Kincardine. The train, which ran as an extra, was not using a van for the tailend crew due to a shortage, but rather an old combine, giving the train the appearance of a mixed train. Regular passenger service on the Kincardine Sub still remained in 1962 in the form of one RDC trip. With releases signed, UCRS members were permitted to ride the "mixed," and with two at a time permitted to ride the flanger which departed for Listowel behind a pair of MLW RSC-13s; 1709 and 1732.

Further details can be found in the February 1963 UCRS newsletter.

Later that day, Extra CNR 1732 at Brussels.

Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.